Seth Godin Quotes

I like passionate fandom.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Football is unconditional love.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The fans on 'Pretty Little Liars' were the craziest fans I've ever met in my life in the best possible way. The dedication that those fans have to the show and the characters is amazing.

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

I am a zealot, and I am wildly proud of it.

The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.

I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.

The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.

For me, football was everything. The love of the ball was everything.

Passion is everything. In fact, you've got to be borderline fanatical about what you do.